Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-206) and index.
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Free-choice learning and the environment / Joe E. Heimlich and John H. Falk -- Who is the free-choice environmental education learner? / John H. Falk and Joe E. Heimlich -- Fostering empathy with wildlife: factors affecting free-choice learning for conservation concern and behavior / Olin E. Myers Jr., Carol D. Saunders, and Sarah M. Bexell -- Behavior change theories and free-choice environmental learning / Nicole Ardoin -- From mission to practice / Tim Merriman and Lisa Brochu -- Tools of engagement: how education and other social strategies can engage people in conservation action / Judy Braus -- How can participatory action research inform free-choice learning pedagogy and research in environmental education contexts? / Michael Brody -- Environmental literacy through the lens of aquarium ocean literacy efforts / Jerry R. Schubel [and others] -- Free-choice environmental learning in practice: research to inform environmental education practice / Elaine Andrews -- Future directions for research in free-choice environmental learning / Roy Ballantyne and Jan Packer -- The federal government and free-choice learning / Janet Ady and Ginger Potter.